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The City Electric : Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania /
"Over the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devic...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2023.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Degani, Michael, |d 1983- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The City Electric : |b Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania / |c Michael Degani. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Ethnography of(f) the Grid -- Emergency Power: A Brief History of the Tanzanian Energy Sector -- The Flickering Torch: Power and Loss After Socialism -- Of Meters and Modals -- Becoming Infrastructure: Vishoka and Self-Realization -- Conclusion: The Ingenuity of Infrastructure | |
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| 520 | |a "Over the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devices is still supplied by the socialist-era energy company Tanesco, which is characterized by increased fees, aging infrastructure, and a sluggish bureaucracy. While some residents contemplate off-grid solutions, others repair, extend, or tap into the state network with the assistance of freelance electricians or moonlighting utility employees. In The City Electric Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state. Moving from the politics of generation contracts down to the street level experience of blackouts and disconnection patrols, he reveals the logics of infrastructural modification and their effects on everyday life. As politicians, residents, electricians, and utility inspectors all redistribute flows of payment and power, they reframe the energy grid as both a technical system and an ongoing experiment in collective interdependence"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Tanzania Electric Supply Company. |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Electric utilities. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00905974 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Electric power transmission. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00905596 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Electric power distribution |x Reliability. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00905457 | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Electric utilities |z Tanzania |z Dar es Salaam. | |
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